Linux-Hardware Digest #738
Linux-Hardware Digest #738, Volume #12 Tue, 25 Apr 00 11:14:40 EDT
Contents:
Re: Daemon (Apple Advertising)
Re: gesplittete Partition wieder zu einer zusammenfügen ("Jens Richter")
Re: gesplittete Partition wieder zu einer (Tobias Frank)
Re: Compaq Presario 1247 RH6.0 video (michaelb)
CD-ROM HP7570i (jinko)
Re: Integrated 3in1 motherboards (Edward Lee)
Athlon 700 + Lucky Star K7VA133 ("J.C. Gonzalez")
Re: Athlon 700 + Lucky Star K7VA133 ("J.C. Gonzalez")
partition limit ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: gesplittete Partition wieder zu einer (Benni Motz)
Re: HOT HD (larrymoencurly)
Re: Guys,Guys BeOS For Linux Is Here !! (David C.)
Re: Dual Xeon Motherboard? (David C.)
Re: gesplittete Partition wieder zu einer (Benni Motz)
Re: Dual Xeon Motherboard? (David C.)
Re: Browser based backup tools? (Henrik Carlqvist)
HP DeskJet 812C problem ("Yasuki Izaki")
Help on the problem: Serial port losing the parameters after re-boot ("Yasuki
Izaki")
Re: IDE or SCSI CD-RW? (David C.)
slackware install on 486dx ("hugo hallqvist")
BT878 TV-Karte unter Linux (Andreas Maunz)
Re: partition limit (Dances With Crows)
Re: HOT HD (David C.)
Re: Floppy format problem. (David C.)
Re: Floppy format problem. (David C.)
Re: partition limit (David C.)
Re: HOT HD (Edward Lee)
From: Apple Advertising [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Daemon
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 09:52:34 -0700
daemon is users/groups for background processes (no password).
admin is user/group/processes that have administrative priveledges (no
password).
NOBODY (I repeat, NOBODY) should be logging into the daemon or admin
users/groups. They are ONLY for background processes that the OS uses.
If you want to add a user that has administrative priveledges, you can add
'admin' to their group as well as other groups.
Again, NOBODY should be part of daemon user/group. Period.
For a better description, read the "Linux System Administration" (try
http://www.linuxdoc.org). Another book would be "Unix System
Administration" for a description of users/groups and background processes
in unix/Linux.
- Ken
Ian wrote:
What are the other users like 'Daemon' and 'admin', and what are there
passwords.
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From: "Jens Richter" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: de.comp.hardware.misc,de.comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: gesplittete Partition wieder zu einer zusammenfügen
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 16:08:35 +0100
Hallo!
"Ulli Rain" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:8e1ihl$869k2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
"Martin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreibselte am Mon, 24 Apr 2000
13:07:51 +0200 folgende Zeilen:
| Wie kann ich die gesamte Festplatte formatieren (Linux weg) und wieder
zu
| einer großen machen??
|
|Bootdiskette anlegen (mit fdisk und format drauf!!)
|von bootdisk booten - Partitions löschen (alle!!) - Neue Partition
|anlegen - Neuinstallation von Win98
|
Schön, wenn´s denn so einfach wäre!
Genau das gleiche Problem hatte ich mit Suse-Linux auch und Fdisk
konnte mit der Linux-Partition absolut nichts anfangen.
cut
Aber es gibt doch bei fdisk die Option "Nicht-Dos-Partitionen löschen".
Jedenfalls hat das bei meinem downgrade von W2k (ntfs) zu W98 ( fat)
anstandslos geklappt. Das geht nicht mit Suse? (keine rhetorische Frage!)
Jens
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From: Tobias Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: de.comp.hardware.misc,de.comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: gesplittete Partition wieder zu einer
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 17:20:44 +0100
Stephan Weber schrieb:
Wie kann ich die gesamte Festplatte formatieren (Linux weg) und wieder zu
einer großen machen??
Am besten du besorgst dir Partition Magic von Powerquest - damit hatte
ich noch nie Probleme. Du kannst hiermit Partitionen verschieben,
splitten, zusammenfügen, Dateisysteme umwandeln und der gleichen noch
mehr. Ist allerdings nicht ganz gratis.
--
Viele Gruesse
Tobias Frank
http://maschinenbau.iscool.de
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Subject: Re: Compaq Presario 1247 RH6.0 video
From: michaelb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 08:51:58 -0700
I got the Compaq Presario 1247 to work using TurboLinux but I
had an equally hard time setting up the X Server. However, I
finally got it going. For the monitor I simply used the default
monitor setting with the modes 800x600 and 640x480 set up.
The setting I used for the graphics card was tgui9420dgi. The
way I found this out was by trying to install with a combination
of XF setup programs. They each detect things differently and
I eventually came across the correct setting. The utilities
I used were:
XF86Setup (runs with the VGA16 server)
xf86config
turboxcfg (comes with the distro)
The next problem is getting sound and I haven't got that going
yet! Let me know how you get on.
Regards,
Michael.
PS. I've been
Linux-Hardware Digest #741
Linux-Hardware Digest #741, Volume #12 Tue, 25 Apr 00 12:14:14 EDT
Contents:
Re: running Intel Solaris8 + ClearCase4.0 ("David H. Mabo")
SoundWindowmanager (Berrie Giebels)
Re: Compact Flash Reader (Christopher Browne)
Re: voodoo 2000 video card problem (Steve Martin)
Re: Completely new to Linux (mopi)
Re: XFree86 4 (Dances With Crows)
Modem ("Brian")
LCD Monitor using Linux (TDogg)
Re: HOT HD ("Gene Heskett")
Is thare any one doing stuff with thie SA-1100? (semaphor)
Maximum number of IRQs? (Chris Rankin)
HELP - Using PCNet LAN module with RH 6.2 (Guy Davis)
Re: Corel Linux ("Robert M. Taylor, Jr.")
Re: Maximum number of IRQs? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Corel Linux (jeff)
Determining negotiated speed duplex for 3c59x ethernet device (Jason J Hinze)
sound distorted! (John Culleton)
Re: Trouble with XF86Config offtime and ViewSonic monitor (Valentin Guillen)
Re: direcpc satellite driver (ostracus)
Re: BT878 TV-Karte unter Linux (Nick Brok)
Re: Netscape froze my machine - now bios doesn't see my hdd (Adam Schuetze)
UPS automated shutdown and restart with ATX power supply (Walter Francis)
Re: Linux on Inspiron ("Eric Zucker")
Re: Sound: CS4236 (Slawomir Siwek)
From: "David H. Mabo" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.hp.hardware
Subject: Re: running Intel Solaris8 + ClearCase4.0
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 00:04:55 GMT
This was posted to an HP News group. But why not look at a lower end
HP, like the A or D. Do you really need that much hardware. I will be
glad to quote you an A if you send me the specs.
Jason Hong wrote:
I am trying to configure 4 ClearCase4.0 vobs server on Intel platforms.
Solaris 8 will be running on Intel server with ClearCase4.0.
Now, I need to find out adequate Compaq servers which provides stability
and performance. HP and Sun servers are too expensive compared to Intel
platforms even though I love to have those hardware. I looked at HP L-2000
which will cost $50,000 for each, and it is beyond my budget.
Here is my question?
1. How is Solaris8 stable on Compaq servers? My candidate for the server
is Compaq ProLiant 8500, and I am not sure how Solaris 8 handles 8 Xeons.
2. What will be the other best OS for ClearCase other than Solaris?
3. If Solaris 8 is not enough stable, my back door will be installing
RedHat 6.2 on the servers and running ClearCase. Has anyone run ClearCase
on Linux?
Thank you,
Jason
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Jason Hong, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anything But MicroSoft CoPyLeFt@
A penguin is the Computer.
Systems Administrator for Solaris, HP-UX, Linux and Auspex
--
David H. Mabo, CPCM
Certified HP Technical Professional
Adaptix Corp. - Cincinnati, Ohio
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From: Berrie Giebels [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SoundWindowmanager
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 17:09:41 -0700
Hi there,
The following happens to me: if I don't run the Enlightenment window manager, I have
sound through my soundcard (CD player). If I run my WM, I still have sound with my
RealPlayer
but xmms and any CDplayer won't work... Does anyone have an idea of what's going on?
Thanks
Berrie, who uses RH6.1 with gnomeenlightenment...
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Remove the needles to reply/Enlever les aiguilles pour repondre
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Compact Flash Reader
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 00:58:44 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Buzz would say:
I have been looking for info about compact flash readers. I haven't been
able to find one that says it is runnable under Linux. I am going to be
using it with mu Nikon CP800. I guess I will be using the wife's machine
until I find one. I would rather have an external one that I can switch
between machines. Thanks in advance for the help!
Efforts are ongoing to support USB-based units, but it doesn't seem to
be There Yet. I'm looking forward to it too...
--
You know that little indestructible black box that is used on
planes---why can't they make the whole plane out of the same
substance?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/hardware.html
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From: Steve Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: voodoo 2000 video card problem
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 21:00:51 -0400
Doc Shipley wrote:
The Voodoo3 is only supported in XFree86 v3.3.5 and later.
Not quite true... it's supported by the SVGA driver in
3.3.3, as that's what I'm running right now.
Unpatched, with 3D?
No, but that was not the statement that was made. As you can see
above, the statement was simply that the card was "not
Linux-Hardware Digest #742
Linux-Hardware Digest #742, Volume #12 Tue, 25 Apr 00 12:14:14 EDT
Contents:
Re: cdwriter (Slawomir Siwek)
Re: Netscape froze my machine - now bios doesn't see my hdd ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: system.map, hardware detection and abit bp6 bios question. (Martin P Holland)
Re: Cant use Parallel Port - parport gives weird mesg ("Ng, Choon Hooi")
Re: Creative Soundblaster Live! OEM ("David Moreno")
HP DeskJet support (Espen Ekeroth)
FS: toshiba 430CDT and ZipDrive $480 and FDC settlement of $100! (Chris T)
Trying to install redhat 6.1 ("Noah Mays")
Re: Maximum number of IRQs? ("Larry Ebbitt ")
Re: Modem (Alexis Bilodeau)
pcmcia Wavelan problem (Maik Hassel)
Re: Corel Linux
Installing ISDN and sound card? (Kurt)
stuck on TLB IPI wait (CPU#1) under 2.1.12-20 (Redhat 6.1) (Arthur Castonguay)
Linux on Sony n505sn ? ("Julien Narboux")
Re: Onboard Audio in Linux (Markus Holzapfel)
Re: Linux sucks? Maybe not. (Steve Fosdick)
Re: Athlon 700 + Lucky Star K7VA133 (Steffen Kluge)
Re: DVD .- (Sven Bovin)
Scanner question (Craw)
Re: PC to PC via USB ? (Steve Fosdick)
Re: Creative Labs 128 PCI Problems (David Harper)
Video card with Power PC initialization Code (Ralph Blach)
Re: UPS automated shutdown and restart with ATX power supply (Steve Fosdick)
Re: Video card with Power PC initialization Code (David Weis)
Re: Modem (Steve Fosdick)
From: Slawomir Siwek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cdwriter
Date: 25 Apr 2000 08:28:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
john calison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I hope someone can help me with the following question. I running
RH6.1 with an HP CD-Writer Plus 9300i (R and RW), it's master on the
secondary IDE. I understand Linux creates a virtual SCSI driver in this
situation.
Can I use "cdrecord" with this setup, in short, can I record, play,
etc... as I would if this where on a SCSI controller? And if so, can
you point me to a HOWTO so I can become familiar with the commands. I
know how to mount and read and play a CD, I read the "cdrecord" man
page, but it seems to apply to SCSI devices.
Can someone please help?
First you have to provide your kernel with :
scsi-emulation
generic-scsi
with scsi-cd
with/without disabling cd-ide.
Some guys claim that you don't need to
disable ide-cdrom but I remove it from kernel.
--
S³awomir Siwek.
Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne SA
Polish Power Grid Company
Linuser #126048
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Netscape froze my machine - now bios doesn't see my hdd
Date: 25 Apr 2000 08:40:19 GMT
In comp.os.linux.help Adam Schuetze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
: I must admit that I let a knee-jerk reaction take control of my response.
OK, you sound a lot calmer now.
: What I objected to, was his condescending manner. I don't agree that it was
: `perfectly valid lesson.' It's one thing to say `gee, shouldn't you consider other
: causes for your crash' than to say `hey dumbass! don't you know anything? get a
: clue!' which is essentially what he was saying. His attitude was lame.
: Unfortunately, I responded in an equally poor manner.
Well, it was't out and out psycho-type lame. I would have interpreted it
as fairly mild ragging myself, but one can't assume the same cultural
backgrounds when working over ascii text communications media.
: I sure don't claim to be a guru in software and hardware bugs. However, from my
: (I'll agree, limited) experience, I have never had a single hardware failure. I've
: got hard drives that are 15 years old; they still work. However, I've used software
Then you're just noticing that low data density and large
magnetic domain size implies less mechanically induced failures! Your
drives will work so long as they rotate, provided the heads never crash
through a power-out.
: that crashes over and over. Given this history, I didn't have much reason to think
: hardware was the problem. When software causes your problems 100% of the time, one
: doesn't think of the hardware when the machine crashes once more. It's not
: superstition. It's called `going from past performance.'
Which is superstition. Calling it inductive reasoning doesn't make it
such, because there is no reasoning involved (by your logic, you will
never die). Jokes based on false inductions are easy to produce. Why,
(digress: I once had an inductive proof that every circuit could be reduced to
a trapezoid of 4 equivalent circuit elements. Only trouble was, it didn't
work for three).
: In hindsight, I agree that I did not look at the entire spectrum of possible sources
That's true, and is a common failure mode for reasoning. People make it
the whole time when they attempt to deal using
Linux-Hardware Digest #743
Linux-Hardware Digest #743, Volume #12 Tue, 25 Apr 00 12:14:14 EDT
Contents:
Re: Q: Best printer for linux box? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: sound distorted! (Steve Fosdick)
Q: Printing at 720x720 with Epson Color Stylus 440? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: need help with a modem config (Conexant) (Steve Fosdick)
Get a FREE Palm Pilot ("Alberich")
Re: HOT HD (David C.)
Re: Scanner question ("Lien-Fei (Alex) Chu")
Help for compile device driver (Le Wen)
Re: Floppy format problem. (David C.)
Re: Which tv tuner supports PAL color system (Jerry Normandin)
Re: Speed of AMD K6-2 System (Jerry Normandin)
Re: Creative Labs 128 PCI Problems (Ross Sieber)
Re: HOT HD (Edward Lee)
Re: Linux on Inspiron ("David Cartwright")
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Q: Best printer for linux box?
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 13:59:41 GMT
In article 8d5ulv$ud5$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can somebody recommend a printer?
Thanks for the informative replies, everybody! It was hard to choose
between Epson and Lexmark; Lexmark was somewhat more highly recommended,
but the printers seem nearly interchangeable if you 1) trust
ghostscript, and 2) trust Epson.
In the end I bought the Epson Color Stylus, and it's working pretty
well for me. The original problem, a jamming sheet feeder, appears to
be solved. Also the printer was cheap: $70 after rebate for a factory
refurbished printer (incl. all shipping, handling and taxes).
The only problem remaining is: has anybody gotten their CS 440 to
print at 720x720 resolution? Everything's fine at 360x360, but at
the highest resolution the printer just starts spitting out blank
sheets. Ghostscript problem? Printer problem?
Len.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Steve Fosdick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: sound distorted!
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:12:32 +0100
John Culleton wrote:
I can send sound samples to /dev/audio and /dev/dsp OK as
described in the Sound-HOWTO. I can play midi files or cdroms OK.
But when I attempt to use either system sounds under KDE or
REalplay 7 clips I get horribly distorted sound. Here is my
Interesting problem! A few days ago I found an old SoundBlaster 16 (the
original ISA one) unused and tried in my PC in place of a Jazz16.
I had a similar experience in that sounds from an MP3 player were badly
distorted though I didn't try sending any raw samples direct to the
device as you did.
I had the line out jack connected to my HiFi and I was able to reduce
the amount of distortion by turning down the volume control with the
mixer and then turning up the volume on the HiFi. This was not a good
solution though because the S/N noise ratio was then rather poor. In
the end I went back to using the Jazz16 (which uses the same 'sb' linux
driver) and which doesn't have the distortion problem.
With both of these cards these is background noise on top of the normal
hiss that goes away when the CPU is kept busy. My guess is that when
the CPU wakes up only on the timer interrupt and halts shortly
afterwards having found nothing ready to run that differences in its
power consumption are putting noise on one of the power rails that the
soundcard uses.
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Voice: +44 1473 642987 MSMAIL: BTEA/BTLIP23/FOSDICSJ
Fax: +44 1473 646656 BOAT: FOSDICSJ
Snail: B29/G34, BT Labs, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, IP5 7RE, England.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Q: Printing at 720x720 with Epson Color Stylus 440?
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 14:08:00 GMT
I just bought an Epson Color Stylus 440. It works pretty well, but
I'm having trouble getting it to print at the highest resolution
(720x720). At 360x360, everything is fine. When I change the resolution
(and leave all other settings alone), the printer starts fiddling with
the paper but spitting it out blank.
Has anyone gotten the CS 440 to work at 720x720 under Linux? Any help
would be much appreciated.
Also, does anybody have a suggested gamma correction for color accuracy,
and suggested margin settings?
Thanks,
Len.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Steve Fosdick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.ppp,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: need help with a modem config (Conexant)
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:29:37 +0100
Kirk Wythers wrote:
I need some help configuring a ppp on a redhat 6.2 box. My modem is a
Conexant MDP3900V-U modem working under windows on COM2.
Conexant are well know for making winmodems - half a modem that requires
some of the work normally done by a proper modem to be done in a
